An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

TIBET.SOME ACCOUNT, t-c1 HE affairs of Tibet continued in a flourishing and prosperous statetill the year 1792>when intelligence was received, that a race ofpeople who inhabit the mountains of Nipal, which are situated to thesouth of Tibet, to the west of Bootan, and border on the northernfrontier of Bengal, had commenced hostilities against the states ofTibet. A numerous body were reported to be then in motion, andactually engaged in open invasion of the possessions of Teshoo Lama;to whose superior power, a nation without soldiers and without arms,was quickly found to be an easy prey.The progress of the Nipalese then was rapid in the extreme ; andthough, roused by the alarm, multitudes assembled in the way, theycould oppose no effectual resistance against the rude incursion of animpetuous enemy, naturally daring, and now animated with the hopeof plunder. Their advance, therefore, against a panic-struck andunarmed multitude, was but very slightly impeded.No sooner hadthe alarm been given, than they appeared before Teshoo Loomboo,and, with great difficulty, the Lama, himself, and all the Gylongs of